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According to statistics,
the year the world consumed over 31 billion barrels of oil - this amount
could fill a tank with a diameter of 1 km and a length of 6.3 km.
Meanwhile, in the world there are 1 285 000 000 000 barrels of proven oil
reserves, ie, only 28.85 tons (slightly more conventional railway tank)
for each inhabitant of the earth. At the current rate of consumption of a
specified quantity of oil should suffice for 42 years.
Convention banning
anti-personnel mines (from the 1997), 133 States have signed. However, at
this point in the world is about 200,000 square meters. kilometers of
minefields, mines equipped banned, and 12 of the 37 states that refused to
ratify the treaty, continue their mass production. This is Vietnam, India,
Iran, China, Cuba, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, North
Korea and the U.S..
Annually produced
1,200,581 tons of wool, the majority - in the "Big Three wool" (Australia,
New Zealand and China). However, more than 51% of the wool used for
clothing, made in Australia, where 21.5 million people account for 107
million sheep, vol. E. 5 sheep for every inhabitant.
56.6 kg of paper and
paperboard per person per year.
According to demographer
Carl Haub estimated, with 50 000 years BC. er. and the beginning of 2002,
the Earth was born 106 456 367 669 people. After that, according to the
UN, came to light about another 946 million people. If all the dead, have
ever lived on earth, rose from the dead and gathered, for example, in the
big Russian, the density of the population amounted to 5,893 zombies on
the square. km - almost the same as it is now in Hong Kong (6,326 persons
per sq. km.).
5.63 kg of newspapers
per person per year.